Monday, August 11, 2008

FAN Jinghua: Only about One

Only about One

IAt small hours my mind begins to growWarts and holes.It is not a pair of lungs hanging out on a tree for irrigation.But bean curd taking forms in coagulant solution,Of much more clarity and purity.The making of silencesMakes me compact outside and expansive within,And I have to sit like a vegetable to forget I am a human beingVulnerable to rust disease and humiliatable to brave ignorance.

IIQuestions are self-generable, asexual.Questions about one has infiltrated me like rays,And I am a honeycombed briquette.No one ever sees the language of the initial question.

IIIIn what languageDo you authorize yourself to be condemnedFor your loneliness to the bones?How to keep one for the touch of bosom instead of pubis?Rather shed sperm than spare spittle?Are your lips tense enoughWhen you blow your fluted bones?Is the condensed moisture warped for a listener?What colors do the buds of notes reflect?

IVI can see you when everything is still, and you are no stranger.The death of night is a black mirror,And when my fingers touch its face, no words appear.What color is the bubble around you? August 8-9, 2008

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Fan (family name), born in 1965 in China, currently in Singapore. There are in this blog: Classical Chinese Poems, Contemporary Chinese Poems, Sylvia Plath in English and Chinese, My own poems in two Languages.... All the translations are mine. My published poetry book Faltering Words contains my selected poem suites not in English.
在此博客上可读到：中国古典诗、中国当代诗、普拉斯诗歌原文和汉译、我自己的双语诗歌。这里的翻译都是我自己做的。除了翻译几本学术著作外，我还有英文学术论文出版于牛津大学；另外已出诗集《期期之言》（组诗选）。